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Athletes pick up food at a buffet in a dining room on the Costa Serena cruise ship

Capacity of nearly 4,000

Welcome aboard the Costa Serena, the Asian Games floating hotel

People watch fireworks in the sky during celebrations following the signing of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey in front of the new blue area in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 9 August 2026.

Power & Politics

The Makkah Pact IV: The Counterweight

Locals on the island of Principe are paid a financial dividend to preserve its natural beauty

Luxury tourism business

Cash for nature protection: hotelier's offer to Principe islanders

Swami Prem Parivartan, better known as "Peepal Baba" or "tree father", and his teams became one of India's largest grassroots planting movements

Nearly half-century mission

India's 'Tree Father' plants for a greener future

US mining company KoBold Metals uses AI to help it find the critical mineral lithium in the DR Congo

Reducing China's dominance

US miner KoBold bets on AI to gain edge in DR Congo mineral hunt

Japan's Shin Ohashi qualified for the men's 50m breaststroke final at the Asian Games in Tokyo

'Genius' Ohashi bids for third Asian Games gold after world record

Officials say Mozambique is increasingly a consumer of illicit drugs, not just a transit point in the intercontinental trade

'Steady and continuous' increase

From transit to consumption: drug use surges in Mozambique

Den Emmanuel an d'Brigitte Macron hunn de Poopst Leo XIV. am Elysée empfaangen.

Starting at 9.20am

RTL Today to live-stream Pope Leo's visit to Metz on Monday

Some Afghan taxi drivers defy a ban on music in public places imposed by the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice Ministry

City 'shrouded in darkness'

Rebellious Afghan taxi drivers defy ban on music

India recorded an average of 80 rape cases per day in 2024, despite having implemented sweeping legal reforms and tougher punishments

'Mindset change' needed

India rape cases turn focus back onto women's safety

Nepal's Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal says his country needs more assistance from the world to develop better systems to monitor the rate of glacial melt, after a devastating flood was triggered by a collapsing glacier, killing thousands last month

$5 bn disaster cost

Rich nations should foot climate bill, says Nepal minister

For many Belgians, the country's brewing tradition is a source of pride

'Alcohol is harmful for your health'

Hopping mad: New health warning stirs up Belgian brewers

Pope Leo's trip is the first papal state visit to France since Benedict XVI's in 2008

Many thorny matters

Pope Leo in France: the issues on the table

A furious row has engulfing Dolly Parton's estate, with the manager of the late country music star accusing her nephew of making violent threats

Just weeks following her passing

Dolly Parton's nephew ordered to stay away from estate staff, properties

In Brazil, political campaigns online have become as important as those on the ground

Knife-edge election race

Brazil candidates mount digital armies for fierce online campaign

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the burqa ban was 'a matter of security'

Italy bans burqas in schools, caps numbers of foreign students per class

Ottawa is renaming 'Trump Avenue' in a suburb of the Canadian capital, pictured here in January 2021

City hitting back at US leader

Canadian capital to rename 'Trump Ave'

Addressing the General Assembly during its high-level week in sunglasses, Shah said a warming climate was 'destabilizing the fragile Himalayan ecology,' melting permafrost and glaciers and accelerating hazards

Urging countries to help

Nepal PM says floods 'a warning to the world' about climate change

Delegates jeered and booed, while Netanyahu's own team stood and applauded

Uproar in the chamber

Israel's Netanyahu denounces enemies, allies in fiery UN speech

Expectations were low for any major bilateral breakthroughs during Xi's state visit

Amid rising fears

Trump hosts Xi for state dinner as pomp masks tensions

Scientists suspect a bacterial infection to be behind the mystery deaths of hundreds of southern right whale calves washed up on beaches in Argentina's Patagonia region

Suspected 'natural cause'

Bacteria suspected in deaths of hundreds of baby whales off Argentina

US President Donald Trump has long had an antagonistic relationship with the media

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico

CNN, MS NOW, Politico allowed back in White House after judge's order

Susan Sarandon was among those apparently detained by New York police as pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked First Avenue near the United Nations headquarters building, ahead of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address

'Unscheduled demonstration'

Hollywood stars among 100 arrested in NY anti-Netanyahu protest

Located some 500 miles (800 kilometres) west of the South China Sea and home to just 17,000 people, Palau is also earmarked to house a crisis-ready stockpile for US Marines

UN approves resolution on dealing with rising sea levels

Jurgen Klopp began his tenure as Germany boss with a draw against the Dutch in Amsterdam

Frustrating night for Ronaldo

Klopp denied on Germany debut as Portugal win in Nations League

Guyana's President Irfaan Ali, addressing the UN General Assembly, urges Venezuela to honor a forthcoming decision by an international court on an oil-rich territory that Caracas has claimed for decades

Oil-rich territory

Guyana urges Venezuela at UN to respect ICJ's ruling on Essequibo region

Newsom also insisted climate was winning politics -- if framed not as a 'green' issue but as one tied to everything

Ahead of midterms

Newsom says Trump presidency 'as we know it' ends in November

Lionel Messi will make his final Argentina appearance in a friendly at home to Benin next month

Argentina coach says Messi deserves to go out on own terms

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